The Bosporus : gateway between the ancient west and east (1st millennium BC-5th century AD) : proceedings of the Fourth International Congress on Black Sea Antiquities, Istanbul, 14th-18th September 2009 /
International Congress on Black Sea Antiquities(4th :2009 :Istanbul, Turkey),author.
Tsetskhladze, Gocha R.,editor.
Atasoy, Sümer,editor.
Avram, Alexandru,editor.
Dönmez, Şevket,editor.
Hargrave, James(Archaeologist),editor.
Includes bibliographical references.
Greeks around the Hellespont, the Sea of Marmara, the Bosporus, and the Western, Northern and Eastern Black Sea, and Relations with the Mediterranean World. Sea straits in the ancient world: their meaning and functions / Alexander V. Podossinov -- Extracting, investigating and representing geographical concepts in Herodotus: the case of the Black Sea / Elton Barker, Stefan Bouzarowski, Chris Pelling and Leif Isaksen -- Pre-colonisation in the Black Sea: the first Greek pottery finds in the Black Sea / Jan Bouzek -- Attributing things Greek: ancient perceptions and perceptions of antiquity / Staša Babić -- Byzance hellénistique et impériale: un centre culturel avant Constantinople? / Madalina Dana -- Religion and Greek colonisation: an epithet of Aphrodite as an example of adoption and adaptation to local practice / Immacolata Balena -- Aphrodite's travels around the Black Sea / Antoine Hermary -- Représentations d'Aphrodite dans la cité d'époque hellénestique d'Albesṭi / Livia Buzoianu, Maria Bǎrbulescu -- Architectural similarities(?) between the Black Sea and North Aegean settlements / Despoina Tsiafakis -- Not all things Greek came through Greek trade or at the hands of Greeks / Gocha Tsetskhladze -- Quelques réflexions sur le commerce grec au littoral septentrional de la Mer Noire d'après l'épigraphie (VIe-IVe siècles av. J.-C.) / Marta Oller -- Trade relations between the Maeotian tribes of the Kuban and the ancient world based on the evidence of amphorae (end of the 7th century-first half of the 1st century BC) / Vladislav V. Ulitin -- Trade relations between Tanais and the Pontic region / S.A. Naumenko -- Stamped amphorae from the Greek Black Sea colony of Sinope in the Mediterranean during the Hellenistic period / Jan de Boer -- Corinthian Conventionalising pottery from the northern Black Sea region in the State Hermitage Museum / Anastasia Bukina -- Komast cups from excavations on Berezan island: on the distribution of Attic pottery in the northern Black Sea area / Anna E. Petrakova -- Column-kraters of the 5th century BC from Thrace (based on the finds from Bulgaria) / Slava Vasileva -- Archaic coins from north-western Asia Minor in Cycladic hoards? / Kenneth Sheedy -- From Vani to Varna: some Late Classical jewellery reconsidered / Monica M. Jackson -- Athens and the Pontic Poleis in the Tribute List of 425/424 BC / Luigi Gallo -- The tyrannies of Heracleia Pontica after Clearchos / Stefania Gallotta -- Romans around the Hellespont, the Sea of Marmara, the Bosporus, and the Western, Northern and Eastern Black Sea, and Relations with the Mediterranean World. Les cultes isiaques de la Troade à la Bithynie / Jean-Louis Podvin -- The military importance of the Bosporus and the Dardanelles in the early Roman empire (Principate) / Marek Ẓyromski and Jerzy Hatłas -- Imitatio principis: Between euergetism and self-celebration. Julio-Claudian statuary groups from the Black Sea, Hellespont and Bosporus / Mario Cesarano -- La mobilité interne en Mésie Inférieure selon les sources épigraphiques / Lucreṭiu Mihailescu-Bîrliba -- Administrative acts and the relations of cities along the south-west Black Sea coast (1st-3rd centuries AD) / Hristo Preshlenov -- Fresh thoughts on old subjects: from ora maritimae to litus Scythicum. The coastal defence of Lower Moesia and Thrace in the 1st-3rd centuries AD / Mihail Zahariade -- From dava to civitas. Halmyris, a Getic, Early and Late Roman settlement on the Lower Danube / Ileana Ildiko Zahariade -- Les amphores romaines d'Héraclée du Pont en Dobroudja / Dorel Paraschiv -- Widderförmiges Kännchen aus Olbia im Akademischen Kunstmuseum Bonn und seine Entsprechungen: neue Untersuchungen über eine altbekannte Gefässgruppe / Alexandru Popa -- The Black Sea and Surrounding Regions in Late Antiquity and the Early Byzantine Period. Early Byzantine sources on the Oghuric tribes in the northern Black Sea area / Agustí Alemany -- European and Asiatic settlements of the Bosporus hinterland in the Early Byzantine period / Dimitris P. Drakoulis -- Römische Spielsteine in einem Grab der Sântana de Mureṣ-Chernyakhov-Kultur: Indikator für einen besonderen Sozialstatus? / Michail Liubichev, Erdmute Schultze -- Early Byzantine churches in the south-west of the Crimea / Annegret Plontke Lüning -- On the chronology of the ancient Chersonesite narratives in Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus' De Administrando imperio 53, ll.1-492 / Lubov I. Gratsianskaya -- Western Georgia in the 5th-6th centuries AD: a choice between Byzantium and Persia / Emzar Kakhidze and Nadim Varshanidze -- Frühbyzantinische übergeprägte Münzen von der Westküste des Schwarzen Meeres / Alena Tenchova -- New Excavations and Projects. Archaeology and development: a mutually beneficial partnership in the Black Sea region / Arlene K. Fleming -- The Encyclopaedia of the Hellenic World - Volume 2: The Black Sea / Ioannis Georganas and Athanasios Sideris -- Black Sea 'tomb raiders' and archaeologists: legitimating illicit excavations under international museum policy / Andrzej Jakubowski -- One possible location of Damastion - Kale by Krševica (south-eastern Serbia) / Petar Popović and Ivan Vranić -- Aperçu sur l'organisation urbaine d'Apollonia du Pont: la parcelle UPI XI-XII-515 / Alexandre Baralis, Martin Gyuzelev, Dimitar Nedev, Kostadin Gospodinov, Thomas Lorain -- Images of the dead on Hellenistic funerary reliefs from Mesambria / Aneta Petrova -- The composition of the funeral feast in ancient tombs exhibited in the National Museum of Archaeology, Sofia / Sasha Lozanova -- Les bols à reliefs hellénestiques d'histria: données archéometriques préliminaires / Pierre Dupont -- Athenian pottery from Berezan at the Hermitage - Revisited / Tyler Jo Smith -- Recent archaeological finds in Apsarus / Shota Mamuladze and Jumber Vardmanidze -- Oluz Höyük: preliminary results for the Hellenistic period and Iron Age layers / Ṣevket Dönmez -- New exploration of the Turkish Black Sea coast: Filyos/Tios / Sümer Atasoy -- Appendix 1. Programme: Fourth International Congress on Black Sea Antiquities -- Appendix 2. Summaries of papers: Fourth International Congress on Black Sea Antiquities -- Contributors/Lead Authors and Contact Details (published papers).